Journal article
Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016
PS Azzopardi, SJC Hearps, KL Francis, EC Kennedy, AH Mokdad, NJ Kassebaum, S Lim, CMS Irvine, T Vos, AD Brown, S Dogra, SA Kinner, NS Kaoma, M Naguib, NJ Reavley, J Requejo, JS Santelli, SM Sawyer, V Skirbekk, M Temmerman Show all
Lancet | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2019
Abstract
Background: Rapid demographic, epidemiological, and nutritional transitons have brought a pressing need to track progress in adolescent health. Here, we present country-level estimates of 12 headline indicators from the Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing, from 1990 to 2016. Methods: Indicators included those of health outcomes (disability-adjusted life-years [DALYs] due to communicable, maternal, and nutritional diseases; injuries; and non-communicable diseases); health risks (tobacco smoking, binge drinking, overweight, and anaemia); and social determinants of health (adolescent fertility; completion of secondary education; not in education, employment, or training [NEET];..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We thank David Anthony Ross (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) who provided comment on the mansucript. This research was funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.